sales + marketing alignment: breaking down silos for success
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Sales + Marketing Alignment: Breaking Down Silos for Success
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DiaDalsky@DiaDalsky
SamBrenner@SamJBrenner
consultant, PR 20/20business development lead
senior consultant, PR 20/20leader, Cleveland HUG
SteveZavaski@SZavaski
senior account executive, HubSpot
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Sales + Marketing Alignment: Breaking Down Silos for Success
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Zero Moment of Truth
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Source:Chiefmartech.com
thecustomerjourneydoesnotfollowalinearpathdefinedbymarketers
@paulroetzer www.pr2020.com#CLEHUG
Convergence of Sales, Marketing + Customer Service
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How do we align sales and marketing?
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Create a seamless experience + delight
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How do we achieve Smarketing?
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• Create the narrative.
• Align strategies.
• Clearly communicate goals and KPIs.
• Maintain consistent collaboration and communication.
• Rely on data.
Sales and Marketing with HubSpot
How to Unify
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Unite Your Sales & Marketing
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• Weekly meeting to review goals and current lead volume & quality
• What types of collateral make a lead good or bad?
• What questions on forms are good barometers?
• Expectations for lead follow-up by Sales
• Top reasons a lead doesn’t close?
• What can Marketing do better to help Sales?
• Service Level Agreements
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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A Formal commitment between Sales & Marketing to meet shared goals for revenue growth. It’s a two-way process.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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Marketing
Commits to delivering a certain quantity and quality of leads to help the sales team meet its quota.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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Sales
Commits to follow up on those leads in a timely manner, and to make a specific number of contact attempts before
abandoning the lead.
Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL’s)
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• Handoff point between marketing and sales• Every company’s definition of an MQL will vary• A good fit for your company
Examples:
• Downloaded a buyers’ guide• Downloaded a product spec sheet• Lead score over…
Sales Qualified Leads (SQL’s)
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• Leads Sales has accepted from Marketing• Every company’s definition of an SQL will vary• Ready to talk to a salesperson.
Examples:
• Requested a demo• Requested a consultation• Lead score over…
Lead Intelligence
Lead Revisit Notifications
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Prospects - Why It’s Awesome
Every day, 98% of your site visitors end up leaving without converting into a lead.
• Who are these prospects?
• What originally attracted them to your site?• Acquire critical information about what content is bringing companies in. • For marketers, this means knowing what content attracts the best types of prospects. • For sales, this means knowing more about a company before making a call.
Lead Scoring
Marketing Automation - Workflows
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HubSpot CRM
HubSpot Sidekick
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The Complete Guide to Unifying Your Sales + Marketing Efforts
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Sales + Marketing Alignment: Q&A
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Sales + Marketing Alignment: Key Takeaways
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The customer journey has changed…so should your approach to marketing and sales alignment.
Takeaway #1:
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Consistent communication and collaboration is crucial to sales and marketing success
Takeaway #2:
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Marketing automation tech will help unify your sales and marketing activities
Takeaway #3: